Hi,
> The main reason to go with an XML schema is that it is language
> "neutral." The main
> reason to not go with XML is that is language "neutral" (it is a
> language). It
> all depends on what you want to interoperate with. Personally, for
> me, I think
> it would be fine to interoperate with C++ globally declared
> variables (assuming you
> can find a compiler or interpreter that supports forward
> references). I tend
> to think that conventional programming languages are more than up
> to the
> task of doing serialization within the same language, and XML is
> unnecessary
> in many cases. The C/C++/C#/Java community gave birth to the XML
> monstrosity, no
> need for people outside that community to leap on the bandwagon,
> unless of course,
> they want to interoperate with the C-style community.
>
> P.S.: I program in Java. I have written serialization/
> deserialization routines for
> C++ data structures (in C++), and a SAX parser for textual Java
> Object[] arrays (XML to
> textual Object[] arrays and back to XML).
>
> Admit to yourself: Do you really like XML?
Depends on view. Doing commercial things, staying and playing with
commercial environment, I would say yeeeess ! Definitively. Doing
research or just playing with ideas alone in the world, one could
talk about :-) There may be better possibilities to implement meta
information for data, of course :-))
Regards
Hans
>
> John "Death to XML" Carlson
>
> At 08:26 AM 4/26/2006, David Faught wrote:
>> To save you the trouble of googling (huh?) here's a quick reference:
>>
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA>>
>> I still tend to Google things as a reflex action, but now I
>> usually read the Wikipedia entries first in the hits. Somehow
>> that statement sounds like a nerd's bad joke. Here's another one:
>> What do you call it when you search Wikipedia (like googling on
>> Google)? Wikisee? Pedialight? WikiPeSea?
>>
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> > ... I have never heard the name Collada before you mentioned it.
>> And even right now (since I haven't googled it yet) I don't know
>> what it is and how it relates to VRML or Croquet. Care to
>> elaborate? ...
>>
>> Joshua Gargus wrote:
>> > Is there any principled reason that you chose VRML instead of
>> Collada?
>> > Just curious.
>
>
>
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